Partial lunar eclipse on June 4, 2012

The second eclipse of 2012 will be a partial lunar eclipse, visible from the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, New Zealand, and central and eastern Australia on June 4, 2012.

Observers in western United States and Canada can also follow most of the event, but moonset will occur before the eclipse ends.

Check out when the eclipse starts all over the world

Find out when the moon will be visible

Can I see the eclipse?

This eclipse will be completely visible over Australia, rising over eastern Asia and setting over western North America. New England and eastern Canada will miss the entire eclipse since the event begins after moonset in those regions.

Observers in western Canada and the USA will have the best views with moonset occurring sometime after mid-eclipse. To catch the entire event, one must be located in the Pacific or eastern Australia.

When is the eclipse?

Here are some times for the lunar eclipse:

• Penumbral eclipse starts – 08:48:09 UT
• Partial eclipse starts – 09:59:53 UT
• Greatest eclipse – 11:03:13 UT
• Partial eclipse ends – 12:06:30 UT
• Penumbral eclipse ends – 13:18:17 UT

When the greatest eclipse occurs, the moon will be at its highest point above the Earth in the sky, or at the zenith, for observers in the South Pacific. At that point, the maximum umbral magnitude will be 0.38.

Time zone converter

The World Clock’s Time Zone Converter helps you find when the eclipse will occur in your local time. Universal Time (UT), a timescale based on the Earth’s rotation, is about 0.59 seconds behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) during most of June 2012. UTC is in the time zone converter.

Other eclipses in 2012

• An annular solar eclipse on May 20-21, 2012
• A total solar eclipse on November 13-14, 2012
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 28, 2012.

Note: Eclipse information courtesy of Fred Espenak, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and P. Harrington, author of Eclipse! The What, Where, When, Why & How Guide to Watching Solar and Lunar Eclipses.